Ian Gow

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SDLP leader John Hume and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in Belfast in 1998. Photograph: Frank Miller
Adams told Hume of ‘worry’ IRA would assassinate Thatcher

Gerry Adams privately warned John Hume that he was “worried” the IRA were close to murdering Margaret Thatcher weeks after they had assassinated one o(...)

Former British cabinet minister Michael Portillo. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Michael Portillo: ‘Ignorance of Ireland among the British is rather shocking’

Last year while filming his new documentary about the War of Independence, former British defence secretary Michael Portillo found himself alone at th(...)

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher with taoiseach Charles Haughey on the steps of 10 Downing Street, London, in May 1980. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
John Bowman: 1989 a calm year in Anglo-Irish relations

It was not a high-profile year in Anglo-Irish relations. Everything seemed becalmed in 1989. Yet Charles Haughey was constantly being asked questions (...)

Conservative MP Ian Gow, who was killed in an IRA car bomb in 1990. Photograph: PA
Northern Ireland leaders no match for Dublin, Thatcher aide said

Northern Ireland was at its “greatest moment of peril” because its political leaders were no match for the Dublin government, a close personal friend (...)

Michael Havers - later to become Lord Havers - who served as attorney general to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Margaret Thatcher’s AG woke from surgery screaming ‘we must kill’ Ian Paisley

Margaret Thatcher’s chief legal adviser woke from heart surgery screaming “we must kill” Ian Paisley, newly-declassified files reveal. Documents mark(...)

Unionist leaders the Rev Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux. They were described respectively as a “bigot” and “inconsiderable” by the Conservative Party’s Lord Hailsham. Photograph: Peter Thursfield
John Bowman: How Irish diplomats ‘dined for Ireland’

During the negotiations which led to the historic Anglo-Irish Agreement signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher at Hillsborough in November (...)

Ian Gow: maintained the agreement would “cause more bloodshed for no good return” and would prolong Ulster’s agony. Photograph: PA
Anglo-Irish Agreement was subject at table of London club

The concerns of two leading Conservative politicians about the Anglo-Irish Agreement were conveyed to Irish diplomat Richard Ryan at a convivial dinn(...)

Peter Barry, left, then minister for foreign affairs, with Tom King, then Northern Ireland secretary, in Iveagh House, Dublin, 1986. Photograph: Tom Lawlor
Thatcher was a chameleon on Ireland even after Anglo-Irish Agreement

Margaret Thatcher was complicated about Ireland. This was scarcely surprising. So many of her associations with Ireland had been negative: her falling(...)

Thomas Mair, who has been found guilty at the Old Bailey, London of the murder of the MP Jo Cox. There is little doubt that he regarded Cox as a “collaborator” against the white race. One of the last searches he conducted on Birstall library computers was into people who had been executed as traitors. Photograph: West Yorkshire Police/PA Wire
Slow-burning hatred that led Thomas Mair to murder Jo Cox
  • UK
  • November 23, 2016, 13:30

Reclusive, nervous and by his own account gripped by feelings of worthlessness, Thomas Mair struck his neighbours and many of his relatives as odd but(...)

Court artist sketch of Thomas Mair, who is accused of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire
Killing of Jo Cox MP politically motivated, murder trial told
  • Europe
  • November 14, 2016, 17:54

The Labour MP Jo Cox was shot three times and stabbed repeatedly in a preplanned murder with a political or ideological motive, the trial of the accus(...)

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